{"id":1527,"date":"2010-05-19T22:26:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-05-19\/1527"},"modified":"2010-05-19T22:26:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:26:20","slug":"late-afternoon-on-awaji-islands-matsubara-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-05-19\/1527","title":{"rendered":"Late Afternoon on Awaji Island’s Matsubara Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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<\/a>\nDancing on the Beach in the Late Afternoon<\/span>\nSunset at Matsubara Beach, Awaji Island, Japan\nphoto by Fumie Friedl<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

On the first day of our mini late-April trip to Awaji Island a few<\/span>\nhours' drive south of Kyoto, we saw the sunset from a beach<\/span> on the\nsouth-west part of the island, as I posted<\/span><\/a> the following day.<\/p>\n\n

I had my recently-acquired Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm<\/a>\nsuperzoom, and had fun playing with its long reach.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 500 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/8, ISO 800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nThrowing Rocks<\/span>\nis something little boys\ntend<\/a>\nto<\/a>\ndo<\/a>\naround bodies of water\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 340 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>3200 sec, f<\/span>\/6.3, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nWith Mommy<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 170 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 220 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nMommy Photo Op<\/span>\nshe's snapping a picture with her flip-top cell phone\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPhoto She Took<\/span>\nphoto by Fumie Friedl<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 500 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/6.3, ISO 450 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nShoe<\/span>\nI was paying attention to his right shoe while manually-focusing the lens, and did okay, I think<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 380 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/6.3, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nMatsubara Beach<\/span>\nCleaner than many Japanese beaches, which doesn't say much \ud83d\ude41\n( there's nothing in focus in this picture; I hope<\/span> it's because I had<\/span> the VR off, or something! )<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Most beaches I've seen in Japan are full of trash, either left behind by\na throng<\/span> of uncaring visitors, or blown in from the ocean over the years\nand left to collect. This one was much better than most — perhaps a\nlocal<\/span> association cleans it every so often? — though still a far<\/span> cry\nfrom the best (Kotobikihama<\/a>) or the secluded, protected beach<\/a>\nwe visited in Ishigaki last year.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 750 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/13, ISO 2500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nImpatient at 750mm<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

I don't know what he's doing in the photo above, but it sort of looks\nlike he's waiting impatiently for the sea to fulfill some command he's just issued....<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the first day of our mini late-April trip to Awaji Island a few hours' drive south of Kyoto, we saw the sunset from a beach on the south-west part of the island, as I posted the following day.<\/p>

I had my recently-acquired Sigma \"Bigma\" 50-500mm superzoom, and had fun playing with its long reach.<\/p>

Most beaches I've seen in Japan are full of trash, either left behind by a throng of uncaring visitors, or blown in from the ocean over the years and left to collect. This one was much better than most -- perhaps a local association cleans [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}